The history of philosophy : containing the lives, opinions, actions and discourses of the philosophers of every sect
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The history of philosophy : containing the lives, opinions, actions and discourses of the philosophers of every sect
Thoemmes Press, 2001
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- v. 2
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
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Reprint. Originally published: London : Printed for A. Millar, 1743
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This text was the principal prose work of the English poet and philosopher Thomas Stanley (1625-78). First published in four volumes (1655, 1656, 1660 and 1662), Stanley's "History" is a major work in the development of the history of philosophy as a genre and has long remained the standard text on the Greek and Roman philosophers. As the first history of philosophy to be written in English it was the authoritative reference work well into the 18th century and saw four English editions as well as a Latin translation which secured its European reputation. The work takes Diogenes Laertius's great biographical works, "Lives and Opinions of the Famous Philosophers" (circa 3rd century) as its model, and extensively examines the ancient schools (sects) of philosophy. At the same time Stanley draws from other sources, including Pierre Gassendi's "De Vita, Moribus et Doctrina Epicuri" (1647) for Epicureanism, and provides some independent work on Aristotle and the Stoics.
The work also contains a series of critical biographies from Thales to Carneades and is a fine example from the early modern period of a doxographical (method of organization by topics or subjects) and biographical approach to writing the history of philosophy.
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